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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
NOTICE OF coHpxmHAr1on

Notice 10 hereby given that we, the under
1N signed commissioners, thereunto duly ap-
pointed by the Honorable c. w. Ellis, Judge of
the District court of Barber county, Kansas
will on the 10th day of March, A. D., 1887. pro-
coed 10 lay on, according to law, for The Chi
cago, Kansas and Western Railroad company,
along the line OF its proposed road, as located
through township No. 30 I'm the said county
OF Barber 1.-THE same being the Mulvune extern
sion of the said The Chicago, Kansas and
Western Railroad company IN and through the
said county of Barber) route for said pro-
posed railroad, not exceeding one hundred
feet in width, except for the purpose of cut
ungs and emoankments IL shall be necessary
security of the road through as much of the
said township I'm said county, as may be de-
sired by the said company, and also such lands
as may be deemed necessary for side-tracks,
depots. workshops water-stations, material
for construction, except timber, the right of
way over adjacent lands sufficient TO enable
the said company to construct and repair its
by aqueducts. and the right Of making proper
drains. and will carefully survey and will
carefully ascertain the quantity of land nee
eesary for such purposes, ont Of each quarter
section or other lot OF land, through which
said route, sidc-tracks, etc, Is 80 located. and
appraise the value of such portion OF any such
quarter section or other lot Of land, and assess
the damages thereto; and when we shall ascer-
tain that such portion of such Quarter section
or LOT belongs to different owners, we will APP
praise the value and assess the damages OF
esch such owners interest
We Will commence TO lay on the said route,
sidetr tracks. etc. as aforesaid, on the line Of the
said companys railroad, ~ located. at east line
of the said township No. thirty e}Dl in the said
county OF BARRIER. on said day. and will adjourn
from time 20 time until our labors In thB be
half are completed.
Dated this serd., day Of February. A. ID. 1887
CHAs. n. DOU0LzAss,
8. K W. FIELD.
RIA. CAMERON.
a. Co1n<ufssfo1ers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
THE LATE STORM.

Tire damage 10 telegraph wires has
made the task OF collecting the details
of the late storm in Colorado and
Western Nebraska very tedious. As
the news comes in, it shows that the
disturbance was the worst in the his
tory Of the region affected. The storm
ragged in the mountains and descended
upon the plains. These had been dry
and free from moisture SO long that
dust and sand, along with snow, rush
ell In such torrents that neither man
nor beast could stand before il. This
compound filed the shallow cuts level
and effectually blockaded the the
tracks. The storm covered the entire
range on the east side Of hhe Rocky
mountains, from the British line to
New Mexico. The eastern edge lap
ped over into Nebraska to North Platte
and McCOok. East of those points no
damage was done.
\ dispatch from Montana, dated the
10Th, says: For the last six weeks.
unprecedented SHOWS, billiards and
gales of wind have ragged through the
northern and western portions of Mon
tana and settlers acknowledge that the
winter was the most severe of any for
the last ten years. The main range of
the Rockies has along its entire length
through Montana from two to six feet
of snow, and there is an average depth
OF twenty inches upon the prairies.
Drifts formed upon the cattle ranges,
and along the stage routes, and the
snow IS covered with a crust too thick
for the cattle to break in order that
they may reach grass, and stock of all
kinds are suffering in fearful manner.
While some Of the cattlemen estimate
the loss at % per cent, the majority
claim to have quit figuring OH the
losses now, and they will be thankful
If they have enough left ~ start anew
in the spring. Hay is very scarce and
high, $50 a ton being paid with alac-
rity."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

Letters are received here nearly ey-
cry day from people who are willing to
put in mills, factories, foundries, ma
chine shops. ETC., if they are guarantee ed
bonus from the city or its citizens. II
appears that this is also the experience
OF larger cities. The Wichita Eagle.
referring to such offers appropriately
says: For and on behalf of Wichita
aud her people, we will take the re-
spOnsibility of saying that we, as a peo-
pie, are not much given to bonuses and
subsidies. An enterprise that can't
make go of it without a subsidy, can't
make go with one, and a failure is ev-
er curse. For illustration, the Eagle
couldn't afford to tear up and go to any
surrounding town for a bonus, however
big, for tire reason that the bonus
would soon be exhausted when the pa
per would not only be compelled to sue
cumb. but the people who had foolishly
subsidized us would be left in a worse
condition than though they had never
attempted the enterprise. This holds
good touching any other enterprise.
Another thing, we don't look with much
favor upon any concern that proposes
to tear up and go some place for the
sake of subsidy. The very fact of
such proposition shows conclusively
that the concern is failure. for other
wise its owners wouldn't be seeking a
new location. Therefore Wichita
wants nobodys old played out factories,
even for nothing, letting alone paying
them 10 come"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
FRAUDULENT TICKETS.


The bill before the Kansas legisla-
ture, it having already passed the house,
to prevent the circulation of fraudulent
election tickets, provides:
Sec. /. When at any general or spec
ial election a ballot with a designated
heading contains printed thereon i'm
place OF another, a name not found on
the regular ballot having such heading.
such name shall be regarded by the
judge as having been placed thereon for
the purpose of fraud, and the ballot
shall not be counted for the name SO
found.
Sec. 2. That any person printing, or
causing to be printed ballots with a
designated heading containing a name
or names not found on the regular bal
lot having such heading or any person
knowingly peddling or dstr buting, any
such ballot with intent to have such
ballot voted at any general or special
election, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanOr, and shall, OH conviction
thereof, for each Offense be fined in
any sum not less than twenty-five nor
more than two hundred dollars, or be
Imprisoned in the county Jail not ex-
ceeding sixty days.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
Seward County Trouble.

The sheriff of Seward county arrived
here last Saturday, having under arrest
Thomas a. Scates and VIM. w. Kim
bali, two of the county commissioners
Of Seward county, whom he brought
here before Judge Ellis, judge of the
Twenty Fourth judicial district, to an
swer for contempt of court in not obey
ing peremptOry write of mandamus,
ordered by Judge Ellis, compelling
them to count certain ballots cast in a
special election i'm Seward county, Feb.
Sth, to vote bonds to the Chicago, Kan
sas and Western railroad. The trouble
arose over fight that has for some
time existed between Fargo Springs
and Springfield, two rival towns of Sc
ward county. An election was held
Feb. 1st to vote aid to the Kansas and
Southern railroad, Missouri Pacific
road, which was to go by way of Fargo
Springs. Judge Strang, of the Six
teenth judicial district, was appealed to,
and he enjOined the commissioners from
making any canvass of the vote. Sc
ward county since its organization has
claimed 10 be attached to that district.
Then when the election of Feb. Sth
was held to vote aid to the Chicago,
Kansas and Western railroad, Judge
Ellis, of this district, which formerly
had jurisdiction over Seward county,
was appealed to, and he ordered a per-
emptory writ of mandamus, compelling
the commissioners TO count the vote
cast at the Springfield precinct for the
Chicago, Kansas and Western bonds,
and ordering the commissioners to is
sue the stock voted. The commission
ers disObeyed this writ, and we're ar
rested by the sheriff and brought here
as stated. Monday they gave bond and
were released 10 again appear before
Judge Ellis yesterday afternoon. The
matter is in the supreme court also, for
the attorneys of the commissioners
have applied fer and obtained writ of
habeas corpus directed to the sheriff of
Seward county, directing him to appear
before the supreme court, March 4th
and show cause why he restraints the
commissioners of their liberty.
Yesterday afternoon the prisoners
wore brought before Judg &c Ellis. Attor-
neys Brownell, of Wichita, and Finch.
OF Seward county. appearing for the
commissioners, and l.. j. Webb, of To-
peka. and L. Sample, of this city, APP
pearing in behalf of the sheriff of Sew
ard county. Judge Ellis ordered that
the prisoners be fined $50 and costs, and
that they be imprisoned in the Jail of
Barber county until they show viii
hngness 10 obey the writ of mandamus
heretofore issued. In the meantime,
until the supreme court can hear and
determine the habeas corpus proceed
ings, the commissioners will be per
united to give bond in the sum of 81 900
for the payment of the fine and costs,
and for their appearance here to purge
themselves OF contempt.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
Eighty-Three per cent. of the
People FAVOR Railroads.
Seventeen per cent. Opposed
to Progressionl
Medicine Lodge Celebrates the
Event with BonJfres!
Mingond Township Also Voted
for the Bonds.

At the election in this, Medicine
Lodge, township, last Monday, Feb.
2lst, to vote on the question of issuing
$50, 600 in bonds to be subscribed to the
capital stock of the Kansas and Pan
handle railroad, there was cast ass
votes, 3Sl being for the bonds and II
against them. This was surprise to
even the most sanguIne friends of the
bonds, for no one calculated that the
majority in the Affirmative would be
more than 200. Instead it was 3O4, or
five for the bonds to one against them.
Figured out to per centum, it is So per
cent. for, to II per cent. against. With
such an unmlstakeable declaration in
favor of proposition, there is no rea-
son for even the worst kicker" open
ing his mouth. The people have spoken
and their voice Is authority.
AS soon as the result of the election
was made known, the town was illumi-
mated, anvils were fred, and rejoicing
was continued until late hour.
There is no excuse for blatant dema-
gOgues standing on the street corners
arguing "agin the bonds" when they
can so much more pro6tably attend to
their business at home.
The occupation OF the reformer is
gone now for quite awhile to come. His
song has been sung. and he can hang
his harp on a willow tree, secure in the
thought that he will have several days
of rest.
Tie vote cast against the bonds, n,
was an increase Of exactly . over the
vote cast against the bridge bonds last
April. Seventy-five voters said they
did not want bridges. Had the court
house proposition been submitted to
the same seventy-five, they would have
said mo, we do not want any public
improvements" With no desire to be
sacrilegiOus, we will say that if the
proposition to establish Medicine Lodge
as the Throne of Grace in that great
day to come, was submitted to the peo-
pie of this township, there would be
from Is to II votes cast against the pro-
position.
But the bonds have carried here.
Unless work shall be actively COM
mencod on the road in this county by
June LIST, all aid voted will be surren-
dered, and we can start new deal.
1t is altogether likely that the road
will be built from Kingman to Medi-
cine Lodge.
Whether or not it will be extended
west or southwest from here remains for
the townships of Lake City and Sun
City to say. These townships will vote
to-day and tomorrow.
MINGONA TOWNSHIP.
The bond opposition also carried yes
terday in Mingona township, but the
vote had not been announced here up to
the hour of going to press.
Lake City township will vote to-day.
Wednesday. and the Indications are
that there will be very hot fight in
that place, and if the bonds carry it will
be by very close vote.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
STOLEN GEMS.

Philadelphia bolt makers threaten a
strike. Politicians will do well to lay
in their stock of bolts for caucus use
and thus anticipate the rise.
In Texas an illiterate man is de-
scribed as one who makes d-m bad
X to signature. There is one news
paper man in the north who signs
Adam Bad-eau.
A report comes from a southern
town that cOlOred clergyman of the
place recently prayed that the indeli-
cate might be made delicate, the intem-
perate temperate and the industrious
dustriOus.
A magazine writer is in favor of
young men going to Vassar college.
Such an innovation would prove disas-
trous. Vassar is full of nice girls. and
if young men were to be admitted. the
college would soon be converted into
a courthouse.
A novel advertising scheme was re-
Gently introduced by a merchant in
Carthage, Illinois. A series of prod
igious boot tracks were painted leading
from each side of the public square to
his establishment. The scheme. it is
said worked to perfection, for every
body seemed curious enough to follow
the tracks to their destination.
y Jacksonville (Fla.) newspaper has
this advertisement: "Being warned of
approaching death by my physician, l
will sell my new $50 piano for Sl65. /
will also sacrifice my organs and sew
ing machines or rent them. Also
American Encyclopedia, Peoples En-
cyclopedia, Gen. Grants Memoirs and
other books. j. p, at news stand"
Western newspapers are printing
pictures of two hands, each holding
five cards. The left hand has a jack,
ace, and nine of clubs, and acc and ten
of spades; the right, the jack of
spades, the king, queen and ten of
clubs, and ace of diamonds. These
represent two eucre hands, clubs being
trumps. The problem is. (which
hand wIns?" The question seems an
interesting one, though which one
leads is not indicated.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

4 resident Of Chicago has fled n
claim ut the Office OF the treasury de-
partment for the redemption of 81 600
United States bond which he says he
swallowed in order to prevent its fall
ing INTO the hands OF burglars. 1t ap-
pears that Willis he was examining the
bond In his room at n late hour at
night he heard n noise i'm the passage
which he supposed was made by
thieves and acting on the impulse of
the moment he ehewed the bond into
pulp and then swallowed It. 1t was
afterwards discovered that there was
no grounds for his alarm. lie now ap-
Peals To the government to make good
his loss. The first comptroller has his
Olalm under consideration.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

The Larned Eagle Optic, speaking of
I.arned's boom, wisely cautions the peo-
pie OF that city not to 90 wild over the
price Of real estate and put their prop
erty mp 20 high, that the tide OF immi-
grafton that is setting in, will be turned
from them. This is also good advice
for the people of Medicine Lodge.
When everybody turns spectators in
city property then are outsiders encour-
aged to seek location elsewhere. We
can't all get rich buying and selling
real estate. Let us take hold and di-
rect our energies in way that will
build up large city and give us a per-
manent prosperity.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

Lamar lCol.l Leader: Register Ar
buckle and Receiver Shrock are in re-
ceipt OF instructions from the depart
nlent that they shall accept no more
business than they can dispose OF.
Already, they. with their CHIEF clerk,
are working days. nights and Sundays
and the business gains every day.
They are contemplating reducing the
hours open to the public to an hour in
the morning and an hour in the after
noon. The department i'm refusing adj
ditional help gives as a reason that the
appropriation Is not large enough.
The Importance OF this new Office,
opening up an empire to cultivation.
demands that In justice Lamar should
be given additional force. and the cul
he made on older offices where u,
business Is decreasing
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

Parsons Sun: when Kansas has as
many inhabitants to the square mile of
territory as has Ohio, the state will
have six million people; when it is as
thickly settled rs England, it will con-
tain thirty-three million people; when
the people are as thick in Kansas as
They are in Belgium, we will have
thirty-six million in our state. 1t will
be Long time before Kansas will be as
densely populated as Belgium or even
England, but there are plenty Of peo-
pie living In Kansas to-day who will
see her prairies covered by six million
happy, prosperous people"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
BUFFALO SLAUGHTER.
Pile OF Skulls and Bones Thirty Feet
High and Three Hundred Long.


(Cor. American Field.1
Those Of your readers who have never
crossed the Mississippi river in quest of
large game would do well to hasten if
they expect to find any thing left for them
70 shoot. Fifteen years ago / made my
drst Far estern trip. Then the buffaloes
and antelopes were in such numbers that
the passengers on the railroad to Denver
slaughtered them from the car windows.
The train was not infrequcntly delayed
while the bovines were crossing the
tracks, and the plainsmen thought
antelopes too easy prey, by reason of their
tameness, to bother with them. To-day there
is probably not one wild buffalo remain
ing. Think Of it! OF the countless thou
sands that few years ago roamed our
Western prairies there is to-day not one
> existent The hunter who gets seventy
Eve cents for a dollar and half skin; the
coroncted foreigner and the bloodthirsty
native have done their woodworking but
piles of bones remain.
"Your readers can form some concep-
lion OF how villainous the cruel slaughter
has been when they learn, as lately did,
that from one station alone (Minnewau-
kOn, on the Northern Pacific Railroad) the
shipment Of buffalo bones gathered from
the prairies and sold for fertilizers aver
aged for more than a year seventy five
carloads daily. This represents the enor-
nous, almost incredible number of nearly
100000 of these noble animals, from one
locality only, sacrificed TO mans brutal
greed.
Il send you photograph Of a rot IN
common sight at any of the stations on the
newly opened roads. The pile of buffalo
bones, as / saw it fortnight ago, was
about thirty feet high and three hundred
long. There ia a terrible lesson in it to my
mind, though ii comes too late.
THE last buffalo in Dakota was killed in
July, 1856, and his head adorns ono of the
buildings Of the railroad at Jamestown.
There is something pathetic to me in that
head and it's place of deposit. 1t is like
the trophy which the savage warrior
hangs TO his tent-pole, or the scalp on tho
Indians Qi-dlen
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

Major Henry Bufor,l, the last of a IA
nous Kentucky family, died recently
at Variation. Always a sporting fam
lily, the Bufords were prosperous, rich
and happy from the earliest settlement
OF Kentucky until, shortly before the
war, Sinkley Buford was shot and killed
ut Versailles, Ky, by Geo. Carter; then
Gen. Abe Buford lost his fortune and
committed suicide; then Tom Duford
killed Judge Elliott in the streets of
Frankfort, was acquitted on the ground
OF insanity and sent to an asylum, and
finally really went mad and So died.
The death OF Henry Buford is supposed
TO have been FASTENED 10y brooding on
the fate Of his brothers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
THEY MEIER STRIKE

NeoShO Fall Post: "There is one
class Of laborers who never strike and
seldom complain. They get up at 5
O'Clock In the morning and never get
back to bed until 10 or IL O'Clock at
night; they work without ceasing the
whole of that time and receive no other
emolument than food and the plainest
kind of clothing; they understand some
thing of every kind of economy ard la
Dor. from finance to cooking; though
harassed 10y a hundred responsibilities,
though driven and worried, though re-
preached and looked down upon, they
never revolt, and they can not organ
ize for their own protection. Not even
sickness releases them from their posts.
No sacrifice is deemed too great for
them to make and no incompetency i'm
any branch of their work is excused.
No essays, books or poems are written
in tribute to their steadfastness. They
die in the harness and are supplanted as
quickly as may be. These are the
housekeeping wives of the laboring-
men,"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23
A Community Ruled by Six Wise Men and
Rs Many Good Women.

n Community Ruled by Six Wise Men and
as Many Good Women.
iCity OF Mexico Letter.
Up In the mountains, about twenty
leagues from this capital, there IL q
pueblo" or community of pure Indians,
which Is governed by six wise old men
and six venerable women, who form
sort Of patriarchal council to which all
the disputes or differences occurring in the
village are submitted for arbitration. In
order to attain patriarctal dignity, man
must, during his youth and middle age
have been honest, laborious and truthful.
The matriarch must have brought up
family of children properly, and never
have been given to lying, stealing or Cos
siping.
In this Pueblo each Saturday Is set apart
for labors Of love and charity. All the
able-bodied men and women leave their
own land or usual occupations and till
the grounds Of the widows and young
orphans, or else work for the benefit
Of the old, sick, blind and help
less. Sometimes, when there Is q large
family of boys and the parents can not
give each land "whereon to raise his
food" some energetic youth, who has
City," desires to 60 there TO earn his bread
and perhaps that, too, of some dusky
maiden whom he designs or hopes to wed.
The fact that he does not know q phrase
Of Spanish rarely deters him; moreover,
there are q few learned men in Mexico
City who understand the Ottomie Lam
guage.
When the family Of q young Indian has
consented TO the proposed exodus the pa
triarchs and matriarchs hold 'ssolemn
council" ways and means are discussed
and then the would-be emigrant is earn.
sstly admonished: '.Bs brave, honest.
truthful and industrious, and mover dis
grace your Pueblo by any act unworthy
an Ottomie."
The lads departure ID q serious affair.
The entire community accompany him to
certain boundary line and the 'venera-
bic fathers and mothers" bestow their
benediction upon him. In the course Of
time or whenever the exile has a chance
to send message to his native land the
venerable fathers and mothers" are as
tenderly remembered as his own blood
III,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

New York sun: There Is one fact
which should stand to the immortal
honor Of Roscoe Conkling, and gain for
him the perpetual gratitude Of the peo-
pie of this country. Although a most
eminent republican statesmen, he never
consented to the fraud which carried
Rutherford Ii. Hayes to the White
House, and has never spoken of that
event or of that man without the scorn
and contempt which they should al
ways excite in the mind of every true
American
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-02-23

y Texas legislator has introduced n
bill To punish 10y fine tie manufacture,
importation and sale of any pistol of
less than H-cal,brc. Ills reason for in
Producing this bill is that man Int
with n bullet from 4i.calbIe pistol
will generally die before he has u chance
10 shoot hack. The result will be an
obvious saving of human life.